The Dickinson press., 1887-08-27
when they resisted shot them. The
mounted police are looking into il.

William Walkers Nicaragua cxpe.
dltlon are arranging to hold reunion
at Louisville some time this autumn.
The largest comet that has ap.
pearcd i'll many years is visible at
indianapolis in the northern sky.
Its outline is somewhat dim but is
perfectly plain to the naked eye.
Rear Admiral Craven, United
States navy (retireU, of Washington,
ID. c.. died at the Charleston navy
yard of heart disease. He was about
so years of age.
President Cleveland will go to Phil
adclphia OH the 18th of September to
attend the centennial constitutional
celebration. He will probably he ac.
companied by Mrs Cleveland.
The two large. barns of William
Miles 4 Son at Hampton, Minn., were
struck by lightning and were burned
to the ground, the flames consumed
twenty-five imported Norman horses
and 100 tons of hay. Loss about $780,
| 600.
G. L. Bartlett, cashier of the sum.
ter National Bank at Sumter, S. c..
disappeared and it was subsequently
ascertained that he abSconded with
about 100000. The bank has suspen.
ded temporarily, but it can stand the
loss.
\ Nashville dispatch of the 23rd
says that Mrs. Sarah jackson, wife of
Andrew Jackson, jr. and mistress of
/ fhn N.hitn hnnSn 1pr;,,,, Il.
Jackson's s second term, died ut "The
Hermitage" today, aged 81 years.
A most brutal prize fight of six
rounds between Frank Wannamaker
and Dan Sweeney took place up Long
Island sound. Wannamaker punished
his antagonist and won. The purse
was $3.50 Il side, marquis of Queens
bury rules, skin tight gloves.
Two burglars entered the farm
house of Mrs. Hitler, an aged widow
of Maple Grove, Minn., and took $40
in money and $1,000 in bank certifi-
Gates and threw the old woman into
the cistern, from which she was fin
ally rescued by her sons in IL terribly
exhausted condition.
At Washington city the Supreme
council of the American Legion of
Honor held the first session of its hi.
ennial convention. The supreme coln-
ell consists of forty-siX delegates. rep
rescnting Il total membership of o.
900. The order is carrying Il benefit
Insurance of SlS3.0O0.OOO and has col
lected and paid in the course of the
last two years about $4,00O,OO0.
The second section of the Cincin.
natl express jumped the track near
Skelly's station, fifty-five miles west
of Pittsburg and was precipitated
over All embankment to Il creek be.
low. The train was composed entire
ly of mail and express ears and was
badly wrecked. Engineer George
Thompson was terribly scalded and
will die. Several others were injured.
At Richmond, Va, extensive move.
ments are being made to have the
largest gathering ever seen there ut
the corner stone laying of the Robert
p. Lee monument which takes place
i'll October. General Beauregard will
be asked by Governor Lee to be the
chief marshal of the occasion. and
Jefferson Davis will be invited us we'll
as all the officers who served on the
confederate side during the late war.
An Indianapolis dispatch says: In
examining the books Of his democrat.
ic predecessor State Auditor Parr dis.
covered that in order to meet the de.
mands Oh the exhausted general fund
before going out of Office the demo.
cratic state officers drew $ll7,l43. .49
of this years interest money and the
payment of interest money and the
payment of interest that should have
been made in last October, it is aller.
ed, was wrongfully carried over to the
present fiscal year and paid in Decem.
her, just before the democrats went
out of office.
| The Mark Lane Express in it's re.
view of the British grain trade dur.
ing the past week says: ssThe rain fall
has checked the threshing and deliv.
cry of wheat and consequently has ar.
rested the downward course of prices,
although values in London and in some
provincial markets have continued in
favor of buyers. Estimates based on
the government statement as to the
acreage of crops for 1887 place the net
yield of wheat at about s, 8,25OOOO quar-.
ters after deducting 100000 for seed .
The st. Paul Evening dispatch says:
Those i'll position to know state that
there has been new shuttle of the
political cards and that H. p. Hall is
now looking for the position of post.
master of st. Paul, to succeed DR.. Day
1t had been generally supposed that
the plum was to fall to VIM. Lee, but
when asked yesterday why Mr.. Lee,
was to be showed aside, democrat
remarked: "Kelly and Doran never en-.
dorsed him, although nearly every one
else has signed the petion."
| During regatta OH the Thames he.
low London bridge about thirty-five
of the spectators OH shore clambere,l
upon barge laden with hay. The
ropes holding the tarpaulin covering
the hay broke with their weight, and
the barge giving a lurch, all were
thrown into the water. The water
was only three feet deep, but the
mud under was eight in depth and of.
fered no foothold. AS near AS can be
learned seventeen persons were
drowned and those saved were res.
cued with great difficulty.
A Hancock, Mich, special says:
The steamer james Fish. Jr., has on
board 800 carboys of oil of vitriol for
the Calumet and Hecla mine, to aid
in generating gas to eXtinguish the
fire. There are Ell route 300 boxes of
sal soda for the same purpose. Yes.
terday the thermometer registered
lo5 in the mine. and serious results
are yet to be expected before the fire
is fully extinguished. The company
is still injecting great quantities Of
steam and carbonic acid gas; 25,OOO
younds of sulphuric acid and an equal
quantity Of bi-carbonate of soda are
daily consumed. The shaft will be
kept closed indefinitely. Some min.
ing men venture to assert that, with
the exception of the Black Hills end
the mine will not produce n nonnd nj